Unity_DomeMasterCamera

DomeMasterCamera makes DomeMaster image with smallest camera sets, without Cubemap. So the performance is more better than DomeMaster image effect.

Import to Your Project

You can import this asset from UnityPackage.

• DomeMasterCamera.unitypackage

How to Use

1. Add DomeCamera into your scene and it will render 4-way textures into each material.
2. Add DomeMasterCamera into your scene. It has 4 meshes to make a DomeMaster image.
3. DomeMasterCamera has also a camera, it will capture the 4 meshes. The result is DomeMaster image.

Layer settings are important. Set some layer and culling mask settings to hide a DomeMasterMesh.

Difference

There are some differences from DomeMaster image effect.

• DomeMasterCamera cannot change the FOV.
• DomeMasterCamera needs low resolution image than DomeMaster effect.
  • DomeMasterCamera makes 4 images to make a DomeMaster image.
  • DomeMaster effect makes 5 images + 1 blank image to make a DomeMaster(Cubemap) image.
• DomeMasterCamera is able to use any resolution.
  • DomeMaster effect must use the Power-of-2 resolution image to make a Cubemap image.
• DomeMaster effect is more simple than DomeMasterCamera.

Performance

DomeMasterCamera is about x1.5 faster than DomeMaster effect in popular cases. Because DomeMaster effect needs to render 6 images (5 + 1 blank image), and bend the images with FragmentShader. So the effect takes more cost when making a more high resolution image.

Reference

• iDome: Immersive gaming with the Unity game engine : Original Paper.
• Creating interactive dome contents with Unity